cringe
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The results of a recent survey from wealth-management platform Betterment are making America’s financial advisers cringe.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Social media users were also split, with one viewer writing that Meghan was "warm, gracious and a delight to watch" while another called Prince Harry's cameo appearance "cringe".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Still, it’s a shame that for the first time in two and a half decades of cringe comedy, the guffaws feel forced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
“To be cringe about it, the ’90s babydoll dress wasn’t designed for the male gaze,” says my friend Rachel, a keen observer of Gen X fashion then and now.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Okay, I’m about to admit something, and you’re probably going to cringe.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
He drives a Ford pickup truck and cringes at needing a security detail, according to a person who knows him well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
"I was in the studio and Lois texted me, 'By the way, we forgot our anniversary'," he cringes.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
Cristin Milioti gets self-conscious about sounding too “actor-y” in interviews, and explains that she usually cringes when she hears a performer referring to a character in the third person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2024
I'm a loving person who cringes at everything associated with February 14, a fan of democracy who wants to hide every time July 4 rolls around and a very grateful individual who actively dislikes Thanksgiving.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023
She cringes, and my soldier barks something sharp that must be telling him to stop.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
Like almost every parent, I cringed whenever my child or another player headed the ball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
As we showered afterward, I cringed when my hair came away in our hands.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
Every time Roberts stepped to the plate, Aurilia cringed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025
The lead lawyer for Google "visibly cringed" when the specific share of ad revenue sent to Apple was revealed, according to Bloomberg.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2023
The children cringed around their mother, but they did not cry.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
“If you’re cringing about writing one performance review, imagine your manager who has to write 15 of them,” says executive coach Sabina Nawaz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
These lies are so dumb and easy to disprove that the onetime criminal defense attorney in me is cringing.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2024
And I didn’t want to ruin that moment, so I was just stuck in a different room, laughing and cringing, all that stuff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
For countries still constitutionally joined to the crown, Charles’s coronation arrived with little fanfare, and some cringing discomfort.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
Some were hostile, some cringing, some horrified; some, who when among themselves were most violent, now appeared as submissive as children.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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